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Genome-wide association scan allowing for epistasis in type 2 diabetes.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jan 2011
Bell Jordana T, Timpson Nicholas J, Rayner N William, Zeggini Eleftheria, Frayling Timothy M, Hattersley Andrew T, Morris Andrew P, McCarthy Mark I
Abstract excerpt
In the presence of epistasis multilocus association tests of human complex traits can provide powerful methods to detect susceptibility variants. We undertook multilocus analyses in 1924 type 2 diabetes cases and 2938 controls from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC). We performed a two-dimensional genome-wide association (GWA) scan using joint two-locus tests of association including main and...
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